Monday, September 20, 2004

No Brainer?

From the Boston Herald:

Suspect wielding machete cuts cop

Boston police officers shot and wounded a machete-wielding man after he sliced one cop in the leg last night, police said.

Police said two officers were responding to a report of two brothers fighting at 214 Princeton St. in East Boston at 9:10 p.m. One of the brothers came out the door of the second-floor apartment brandishing a machete and swung at the cops, cutting one in the knee.

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The shooting will be investigated by internal affairs officials to determine whether the use of force was appropriate, a police spokesman said.

God help us all if this investigation takes a second more than three minutes to open, conduct, and close. Maybe, just maybe, if this guy could have had some free ice cream, this situation could have been avoided.